What is the traditional food of the slight cold solar term?

The traditional delicacies of Xiaohan solar terms include Laba porridge, mutton and so on.

In the slight cold season, the direct point of the sun is still in the southern hemisphere, and the heat in the northern hemisphere is still in a state of dissipation. The heat absorbed during the day is still less than the heat released at night, so the temperature in the northern hemisphere continues to decrease. After the winter solstice, the cold air frequently goes south, and the temperature continues to drop, and the temperature drops to the lowest during the slight cold and severe cold in a year. There is a folk saying that "it's 239 when it's a slight cold, and it's almost freezing with cold", which shows that it's a slight cold.

According to China's long-term meteorological records, the slight cold solar terms are colder than the severe cold solar terms in the north, and there is a saying in the north that "slight cold is better than severe cold"; However, for some parts of the south, the lowest temperature in the whole year will still appear in the great cold solar terms. The slight cold in northern China is colder than the severe cold, because there is relatively little "residual heat" on the surface, which has been completely released by the slight cold, so that the temperature is minimized.

In the south, the surface is relatively hot, and its "residual heat" was not released until the slight cold. In the severe cold, the surface "waste heat" is exhausted and the temperature is minimized.

The custom of slight cold

1, Ice Opera

In the northern provinces of China, the weather is colder after winter. Sometimes the river is frozen and thick, and people walk on the ice with sleds. The sled is pulled by a horse, a dog or a rider, who holds a wooden pole and pushes it forward like a gondola. In areas with extremely thick ice surface, most of them have ice beds for pedestrians to play with, and some even race on the ice with skates, which was called ice show in ancient times.

2. La Worship

"Slight cold" is the solar term of the twelfth lunar month. Because the ancients held a La Worship to worship the gods in December, the December in which La Worship lived was called the twelfth lunar month. The original meaning of wax is "connection", which means the handover of the old and the new. La Worship is one of the ancient sacrificial customs in China, which was formed as far back as the pre-Qin period.